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__________ MAKE A GREENFLAG FOR THE PLANETMAKE A FLAG**, or TAKE A FLAG, There is a growing grassroots movement of citizens that are taking a visible stand in public for the protection of our planet and for sustainable peace.
and FLY IT 4THEPLANET and 4PEACE
We invite you to join us in support of this critical movement by using the GREENFLAGS pages to create or download flags and signs that you can "fly" in order to "become the media" as well.
Flaggers are requested to fly a flag/sign in as many locations as possible - such as at home, at work, on their car, and on a backpack. Flag actions are a superb way to score points in the EARTH ACCORD. Check WWW.EARTHACCORD.ORG for more info.
With cloth, cardboard, or computer, create a flag to inspire others to join in actions for planet and peace and to be become a hero for millions of life-forms.__________ TAKE A GREENFLAG FOR THE PLANET
**The word "FLAG" is used to indicate any flag or sign-like object with words or symbols that is used to take a stand and encourage environmental action.
If you want to hand-make a cloth flag, choose and write a message or design from the FLAG MESSAGE section onto a piece of non-stretch, light-colored cotton fabric from an old shirt, sheet, or other clothing, with black or color permanent markers. Caution: Some permanent markers might run or fade. Tacking the fabric to a piece of cardboard can make writing the message on the flag easier.
The size of the flag you make will depend on whether it is:
• A big flag for your yard,
• A cardboard flag for your front home window or your car,
• On a t-shirt or backpack,
• A small triangular flag for your lapel.
A good size for hanging in a your yard or even on a backpack might be about 12 inches square. A triangle is a good shape for a lapel flag as it can be attached with one pin and it hangs well. Circles are a good shape for patches.
If you have made a cloth flag, you can attach the the flag to a cord or string and then tie it between two poles or trees (prayer-flag style) or attached to a diagonal flagpole. Here are several "middle of the string" loop knots that can be easily tied to the corners of the flags.: the fine ol' clove hitch, the better rolling hitch, and the strong, tightest constrictor hitch. To create an adjustable knot that you can to tie the two ends to a pole check out the midshipmans hitch/tautline.
Flying several GreenFlags on a line in prayer-flag style is a powerful way to invite friends and neighbors to join in positive actions for our planet.
If you want to use a computer to design your flag/sign that's great too. Use a text editor to add and format a message to fit on a standard piece of paper that you turn into a flag/sign. Any of the slogans or quotes that you find on this page would make a good flag. Addressing a current environmental issue, governmental action or environmental campaign in your flag(s) is also great.
If you make a good looking flag, share it with others by taking a picture of it and upload the picture to the EARTHACCORD PHOTO ALBUM, or email it to GREENTOPIAORG-4@YAH()().COM
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In general, if you find a picture on the web that would make a good flag/sign, right click on an image to download it, then enlarge it if needed (most computer systems come with at least one simple graphics program), and then print it out. If wanted, you can print out a big version of a picture that you find at many of the bigger copy stores.__________ FLAG MAKING PARTIES
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Getting your friends and family together to make enviro flags can be a great way to inform and motivate others, and have a bunch of fun. Participants can make flags and signs for themselves and for others as gifts. Please take pictures of the best flags made at your party to upload to the EARTHACCORD PHOTO ALBUM.__________ FLAG TAGGING~~~~~
A GREENFLAG TAG is nickname added to a flag by the person who made the flag. If you want to, add a GREENFLAG TAG to your flag. If your GREENFLAG TAG is also your EARTHACCORD Yahoo Group Profile name, it will be easier for the EARTHACCORD awards committee to verify, nominate, and contact you for one of the awards. The EARTHACCORD GROUP/FORUM page is where you can create your Profile/Flag Tag. Adding a GREENFLAG TAG to your flag is optional.__________ ZENITH~~~~~
Welcome Earth Lovers,
Every day each of us has either a positive or negative effect on the environmental actions of others. By not making our environmental commitments known to others, we appear to be saying that we are endorsing the anti-environment status quo. So team up with others in the EARTHACCORD network for the protection of our sweet planet by flying your flags today.
Respectfully, Stele Ely
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To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand And eternity in an hour. William Blake WWW.UNDOIT.ORG www.environmentaldefense.org |
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| . | SUPPORT THE CLEAN WATER AUTHORITY RESTORATION ACT OF 2003 SIERRA CLUB .ORG |
| . | Henry David Thoreau More Quotes For Flags WWW. EARTHACCORD .ORG |
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 Includes photos of: the Whittier School NO LAND MINE FESTIVAL, the TRANQUILITY PROJECT as well as other S4PP and EARTHACCORD flags. |
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LIVE IN LOVE FOR ALL THE LIFE THAT LOVES TO LIVE S.Ely
In the end, our society will be defined not only by what we create, but by what we refuse to destroy. - Nature Conservancy's John Sawhill
... all things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man ... the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports. - Chief Seattle, Duwamish
WE ALL LIVE DOWNSTREAM
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed. - Mohandas K. Gandhi
The ultimate test of man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard. Gaylord Nelson
THINK GLOBALLY ACT LOCALLY
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it. - President Theodore Roosevelt
INSATIABLE IS NOT SUSTAINABLE
Living wild species are like a library of books still unread. Our heedless destruction of them is akin to burning the library without ever having read its books. - Rep. John Dingell of Michigan
UNLESS someone like you cares a whole lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not. - Dr. Seuss' The Lorax
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. - Shakespeare
A nation that destroys it's soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people. - President Franklin Roosevelt
The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope. - Wendell Berry
Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man - Stuart Udall
HUMANS AREN'T THE ONLY LOVERS
To the dull mind nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
WILL WORK FOR PEACE
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you. - Frank Lloyd Wright
The Bible declares that on the sixth day God created man. Right then and there, God should have demanded a damage deposit. - Jim Hightower
LIVE SIMPLY THAT BILLIONS MAY SIMPLY LIVE
Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty. - Albert Einstein
Modern Society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyles. - Pope John Paul II
THE EARTH DOES NOT BELONG TO US, WE BELONG TO THE EARTH
God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars. - Martin Luther (1483-1546)
Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God. George Washington Carver (1864-1943)
To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand And eternity in an hour -William Blake
RISE ABOVE CONSUMERISM.
Conservation is the foresighted utilization, preservation and/or renewal of forests, waters, lands and minerals, for the greatest good of the greatest number for the longest time. - Gifford Pinchot
He who knows what sweets and virtues are in the ground, the waters, the plants, the heavens, and how to come at these enchantments, is the rich and royal man. - Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882
YOU MAY SAY I'M A DREAMER BUT I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE
(Upon signing of the Wilderness Act, 1964) If future generations are to remember us with gratitude rather than contempt, we must leave them more than the miracles of technology. We must leave them a glimpse of the world as it was in the beginning, not just after we got through with it. - President Lyndon B. Johnson
LOVE YOUR MOTHER
Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters. - Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It
CONSUME LESS, SHARE MORE
Why is it that we judge development on what we have built rather than what we have preserved? We strive to protect what was built by man, but give little thought to protecting what was made by God. - Juanito G. Cambangay
REUSE, REDUCE RECYCLE OR DIE
We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent upon its vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed for our safety to its security and place, preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and, I will say the love we give our fragile craft.
LIVE SIMPLY THAT OTHERS MAY SIMPLY LIVE
So let's leave some blue up above us Let's leave some green on the ground It's only ours to borrow, let's save some for tomorrow Leave it and pass it on down - "Pass It On Down" chorus by country music "Alabama"
Savannas are magnificent wildflower gardens. Something is always blooming grass pink orchids, rose pogonia, rosebud orchids, ladies' tresses. In the heat of the summer the fringed orchids are torches through the meadows. Blue-eyed and yellow eyed grass, white eyed sedge. Meadow beauties. Fall brings on the composites, purple spires of liatris, also called blazing star, brown rayless sunflowers, goldenrod, bigelowia and coreopsis. The aster balduina pools like orange juice in the wettest places and clumps of pearl-tipped hatpins stick the carpet of forbs to the flat earth. White violets hover low. - Janisse Ray
SAVE THE PLANET STOP BREEDING
Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you. - John Muir
MATERIALISM KILLS
The Wilderness holds answers to more questions than we have yet learned to ask. - Nancy Newhall
What's the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on? - Henry David Thoreau
ONE PLANET, ONE FUTURE
The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of His hand. - Psalm 19:1
EXTINCT IS FOREVER
The civilized people of today look back with horror at their medieval ancestors who wontonly destroyed great works of art or sat slothfully by while they destroyed. We have passed this stage... Here in the U.S. we turn our rivers and streams into sewers and dumping grounds, we pollute the air, we destroy our forests and exterminate fishes, birds and mammals - not to speak of vulgarizing charming landscapes with hideous advertisements. But at best it looks as if our people were awakening. - Theodore Roosevelt,
SUPPORT ORGANIC FARMERS
We end, I think, at what might be called the standard paradox of the 20th century: our tools are better than we are, and grow faster than we do. They suffice to crack the atom, to command the tides. But they do not suffice for the oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it. - Aldo Leopold
GOOD PLANETS ARE HARD TO FIND
Use every letter you write, every conversation you have, every meeting you attend, to express your fundamental beliefs and dreams. Affirm to others the vision of the world you want. You are a free, immensely powerful source of life and goodness. Affirm it. Spread it. Radiate it. Think day and night about it and you will see a miracle happen: the greatness of our own life. - Robert Muller. Former Assistant Secretary General United Nations
God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches and a thousand tempests and floods. But He cannot save them from fools. - John Muir
In wilderness I sense the miracle of life. - Charles A. Lindbergh
EARTH PATRIOT
I bind unto myself today, the virtues of the starlit heaven, the glorious sun's life giving ray, the whiteness of the moon at even, the flashing of the lightning free, the whirling wind's tempestuous shocks, the stable earth, the deep salt sea, around the old eternal rocks. - St. Patrick's Breastplate
Treat the Earth well. It was not given to you by your parents. It was loaned to you by your children. - Kenyan Proverb
I'D RATHER BE ORGANIC GARDENING
A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise. - Aldo Leopold
**** Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there. - Gary Snyder
POLLUTION IS A CHEMICAL WEAPON
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